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Hardin pleaded guilty last week to
failure to stop for a school bus and was sentenced as part of her parole
agreement to stand at the corner of East 38th Street and Superior
Avenue with a 22-inch by 22-inch sign that reads: ‘Only an idiot would
drive on the sidewalk to avoid a school bus.’

Cleveland Metropolitan School
District bus driver Uriah Herron was credited with catching Hardin’s
dangerous maneuver on his cell phone camera in September.

Judgement call: Judge Pinkey Carr said she sentenced Hardin to public penance because she had shown no remorse for her actions

The white car of Shena Hardin is seen waiting behind another vehicle and is filmed by the concerned bus driver

Herron indicated that Hardin has been driving on the sidewalk near a day care center on a regular basis.

Judge Carr said had Hardin showed any remorse for her actions, she might have reconsidered her sentence.

The judge said a court official would travel to the location to make sure Hardin was standing with the sign.

Hardin was caught in a September police sting after the bus driver reported her for repeatedly driving onto the sidewalk.

Impatient: Hardin pulls outside and mounts the sidewalk as she moves to drive past the school bus

Dangerous: Motoring past the school bus Hardin's vehicle can be seen on top of the sidewalk

As she passes the bus - Hardine pulls off the sidewalk and back onto the road

Shena Hardin, 32, appeared in Cleveland Municipal court charged with a third degree misdemeanor for the dangerous stunt which was captured on video by the shocked bus driver

Immediately after her arrest Hardin denied ever having gone over the sidewalk before and her mother said that this was the first time driving over the sidewalk.

'The bus for some reason, takes an inordinate amount of time talking to the parent or whatever everyday, but he takes forever,' said Toni Hardin.

'While he's doing all that we're waiting trying to get through. Now this morning, she was late she was trying to get her daughter to school, the reason for going around and going to the side was to give that bus plenty of room.'

'Today was the first day she did that and that was a bad move today.'

The children inside the Cleveland Metropolitan School District bus look on shocked as the car drives past

Hardin drives straight towards a waiting police officer who had been waiting for her after a tip off from the bus driver

However, bus driver Uriah Herron produced a video dated from before her September arrest which proved Hardin was lying and had indeed driven her car over the sidewalk at least one more time.

'She did it all last school year,' said Lucy Kelley, whose child rides the school bus.

'I was over there February of last year she did it ever since then.'

The court praised Herron for his quick thinking in videoing the sidewalk detour, which allowed the police to find Hardin guilty.

'We had a very conscientious driver for 30 years,' said CMSD bus manager Eric Taylor.

'He really cares about his children and he took the extra step that this doesn't happen again.'